A three-year study has cracked open the hidden biology behind coral reproduction, revealing hormone cycles that echo those of humans and other animals, and a new way to detect reef distress before ...

The new experiment from Egli and his colleagues represent the first time this technique has been used to edit embryonic cells ...

Almost a quarter of all freshwater species are threatened with extinction. The removal of human-made barriers from rivers, such as dams and weirs, is a popular way to restore water flow and sediment ...

All-female species have been long thought of as evolutionary dead ends – but one fish has defied the odds to live without ...

In a school plagued by grind culture and blessed by hardworking sustainability experts, how sustainable are students?

What happens when cocaine makes its way into rivers and lakes? Scientists tested the answer on wild salmon in Sweden. Here’s ...

From pregnancy to stronger immune responses, science reveals unique biological abilities that women possess and men cannot ...

Tiny birds on remote Scottish islands are undergoing a dramatic evolutionary transformation. Scientists studying four ...

The Canadian entrepreneur has always pushed the boundaries of gene editing, once attempting to turn horses into unicorns. Now she is set on modifying human embryos – something her controversial ex-hus ...

Tropical paper wasp colonies survive chaotic queen loss through "compensator" wasps that step up essential labor.

No matter how it is framed or softened in institutional language, what a section of India’s judiciary once said by comparing unemployed youth to “cockroaches” remains unacceptable in any serious ...